Athletic Program Review Manchester Essex Regional School District School Committee Meeting December 8, 2009 Athletic Director: Kelly Porcaro

Current State of Program Total of 38 teams, with 330 participants in current fall season 14 Fall teams, 15 Winter teams, and 9 Spring teams Fully compliant with Chapter 622 and Title IX, with equal opportunity for all students Field Hockey was seeded number 1 in the North for the MIAA tournament - Our defending Superbowl Champion Football team had only 2 losses Communicating with parents through mass mailing, school website, HighSchoolsports.net, and Connect Ed system Indoor Track Program set to begin its second year in 2009 New Girls and Boys Alpine Ski Racing Team set to begin winter 2009 Significant athletic offerings for school with 444 high school students and approximately 347 middle school students

Middle School Athletics 6 th grade program in the fall and spring run by the Manchester Recreation Department 7 th and 8 th grade waivers in boys and girls cross country, golf, ice hockey (8 th grade only), boys and girls swim, boys and girls indoor track, girls and boys lacrosse, baseball, softball and boys and girls tennis Middle School athletic teams in co-ed soccer, field hockey, and boys and girls basketball

Addressing Concussions In Student Athletes We have purchased the ImPact Test Software and contracted with Dr. Neil McGrath Baseline testing to begin on student athletes during the winter preseason Each student athlete will be baseline tested using the ImPact Software by September of 2010

Value to Mission The Interscholastic Athletic Program plays a very special role in the our athletes’ lives. Sports allow these individuals to develop integrated personalities, which demonstrate consistency in thinking and actions, irrespective of the tenseness of the situation. Competitive sports offer rich opportunities for the development of the unified personality as the individual has numerous opportunities to lead and follow, to give and to take, to submerge self for the good of the common cause, to win, to lose, and to take the consequences of his or her own actions and those of the group. In addition, the individual, in effect, acquires another means of communication through which each is enabled to give expression to his/her particular personality.

Delivery Model

ATHLETIC REVOLVING ACCOUNT Athletics’ Budget

Transportation Salter Transportation has been very good to work with Budget will be increased as previously only the cost of drivers’ salaries were charged Savings from gas, maintenance, insurance, ect. will offset the cost

Fee school year2009 family capChange AmesburyYes$200 per sport$650Family cap down $ BeverlyYes$200-$300 per sportnonone ChelseaNo DanversYes$125-$200 per sport$600$50 increase, family cap up $100 EverettNo GeorgetownYes$370-$450 per sport$1,500$5 reduction in top tier fee GloucesterYes$271-$399 per sportno2 nd sport is a flat fee of $165 Hamilton-Wenham*Yes$282-$1189 per sportnovariable increase depending on parental fundraising HaverhillYes$275 first sport; $275 second; third free; non- busing sports, $175 $850$300, $1000 free last year IpswichYes$400 per student/$250 for 2 nd child $650none LynnNo LynnfieldYes$200 per student$450Family cap up $25 Fees Comparison

Manchester-EssexYes $295 per student/per year Additional fee for Alpine Ski noup $95 per student MarbleheadYes$340 per student$480none MasconometYes$250-$650 per sportnonone Northeast RegionalNo North Shore TechNo NewburyportYes$225-$465 per sport$1,300 $65 increase per student PeabodyYes$150 per sport$300none PentucketYes $200-$400 per sport, $850 hockey nonone RevereNo RockportYes $300 per student, $350 hockey noUp $75 per student SaugusYes$250-$350 per sportnonone SalemYes$200 per student$350none SwampscottYes$250 per sport$1,250none TritonYes$250 per sport$1750Added a family max WhittierNo WinthropYes$350 per sport$1,575up $100 per sport

Challenges Field and facilities constraints during building project Rising fixed costs (Transportation & Officials) Maintaining quality programs in the face of difficult budgetary times

Plan for Moving Forward Integrate new facilities from building project into existing program Retain the successful recipe of offerings, low fees, participation, and competitive success Add a Cross Country Coach Expand coaches’ education, including CPR, First Aid and AED certifications. Implement Impact Concussion Testing Implement a Captains’ Council